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 26 THE CHERRIE L. Therefore I wish'd them to beware, And rashly not to run owre far, Without sic guides as ye. Quoth Courage, friend, I hear you fail, Take better tent unto your tale, Ye said, it could not be : Besides that ye would not consent, That ever we should climb. Quoth Will, for my part I repent, We saw them mair than him : For they are the stayer Of us as weel as he; I think now, they shrink now, Go forward, let them be. LI. Go, go, we naething do but gucks, They say the voyage never lucks, Where ilka ane has a vote. Quoth Wisdom gravely, Sir, I grant, We were nae worse your vote to want; Some sentence here I note; Suppose ye speak it but beguess, Some fruit therein I find, Ye would be forward I confess, And comes aft times behind. It may be, that they be Decciv'd that never doubted: Indeed Sir, that head Sir, Hath meikle wit about it.